Summary
Matthew Moore is a Teaching Assistant Professor for the School of Public Health. A Public Health Attorney, Matthew worked for several years in government and in the nonprofit sector. At the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights, he worked with diverse communities to ensure equitable access to health care and to exercise oversight over various covered entities pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and other federal civil rights laws. More recently, Matthew worked as a nonprofit attorney, focusing on tobacco control and obesity prevention policy and providing direct legal technical assistance to state and local government agencies, environmental groups, legal aid organizations, and other community stakeholders.
Matthew’s current research agenda focuses on the ethical and moral dimensions of policy and the law on poverty and economic inequity, as well as on pedagogy in higher education. Recent projects involve the impact of policy on stigmatization of individuals suffering from substance abuse disorder, and a legal analysis of discrimination against homeless individuals in access to emergency shelter during natural disasters.
Selected publications
- Guzzardo, M.T., Khosla, N., Adams, L.A., Bussmann, J.D., Engelman, A., Ingraham, N., Gamba, R., Jones-Bey, A., Moore, M.D., Toosi, N.R., & Taylor, S.(2020). The Ones that Care Make all the Difference: Perspectives on Student-Faculty Relationships. Innovative Higher education, 2020 1-18.
- Moore, M.D., Ali, S. Burnich-Line, D., Gonzales, W. & Stanton, Michael V. (2020). Stigma, Opioids and Public Health Messaging: the need to Disentangle Behavior from Identity. American Journal of Public Health110(6), 807-810.
- Moore, M.D., & Ganesh, C. (2018, April). Disasters, Displacement, and Dysfunction: The Capacity of Emergency Housing Policies to Assist Climate Refugees in Natural Disasters. [Paper presentation] Tenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impact and Responses, Berkeley, CA, United States.
Professional affiliations
- American Public Health Association
- Massachusetts State Bar
Education
- JD from Northeastern University School of Law
- MPH from Tufts University School of Medicine
- MA in Anthropology from San Francisco State University
- BA in Anthropology from San Francisco State University